GeorgeWeeks2014
@georgeweeks2014.bsky.social
🇪🇺British/New Zealand urban planner & university teaching fellow living and working in Auckland. Twitter refugee. Interested in most things, esp. architecture, energy, accessibility, sustainability, comedy and health. My views are my own.
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Schroedinger’s apartment building: simultaneously raising and lowering property values by being full of both rich and poor people.
It's very funny that in an urban context people say that apartments will destroy the neighborhood by bringing rich people in and in a suburban context people say that apartments will destroy the neighborhood by bringing poor people in. Is 'funny' the right word?
Building new housing does not destroy neighborhoods. Single family homes are the most expensive and luxurious form of housing, which is why nearly all rich people live in them.
November 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Schroedinger’s apartment building: simultaneously raising and lowering property values by being full of both rich and poor people.
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😮 A sobering statistic for Road Safety Week... In the UK, SUVs are three times more likely to kill a child under the age of 10 and heavier cars are more likely to be involved in fatal collisions.
Source: @cleancitiescampaign
#roadsafetyweek #roadsafetyweek25 #carspreading #suvs #schoolrun
Source: @cleancitiescampaign
#roadsafetyweek #roadsafetyweek25 #carspreading #suvs #schoolrun
November 16, 2025 at 6:45 AM
😮 A sobering statistic for Road Safety Week... In the UK, SUVs are three times more likely to kill a child under the age of 10 and heavier cars are more likely to be involved in fatal collisions.
Source: @cleancitiescampaign
#roadsafetyweek #roadsafetyweek25 #carspreading #suvs #schoolrun
Source: @cleancitiescampaign
#roadsafetyweek #roadsafetyweek25 #carspreading #suvs #schoolrun
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The dam is breaking. The world's leading public health news organization is now reporting US driver violence as a public health crisis.
"American roads have become more dangerous than violent crimes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, and other major cities." t.co/BEcu5JJ457
"American roads have become more dangerous than violent crimes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, and other major cities." t.co/BEcu5JJ457
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/traffic-deaths-pedestrian-safety-vision-zero-los-angeles-dot-nhtsa/
t.co
November 16, 2025 at 3:56 AM
The dam is breaking. The world's leading public health news organization is now reporting US driver violence as a public health crisis.
"American roads have become more dangerous than violent crimes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, and other major cities." t.co/BEcu5JJ457
"American roads have become more dangerous than violent crimes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, and other major cities." t.co/BEcu5JJ457
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#Australia: The Liberals and Nationals have both decided to dump net zero. Like NZ, Australia risks being ‘captured’ by #AtlasNetwork corporations & sycophants- including #BigOil, Mining & Tobacco
Coalition plans to strip #climate from energy operator's objectives
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Coalition plans to strip #climate from energy operator's objectives
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Coalition plans to strip climate from energy operator's objectives
The Coalition would reduce emissions "year on year" considering the "real performance" of other developed countries and strip climate from the objectives of the nation's energy operator under a plan n...
www.abc.net.au
November 16, 2025 at 4:33 AM
#Australia: The Liberals and Nationals have both decided to dump net zero. Like NZ, Australia risks being ‘captured’ by #AtlasNetwork corporations & sycophants- including #BigOil, Mining & Tobacco
Coalition plans to strip #climate from energy operator's objectives
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Coalition plans to strip #climate from energy operator's objectives
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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Schrödingers congestion charge: simultaneously not reducing private car traffic AND declining all traffic which apparently spends money in the City Centre.
November 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Schrödingers congestion charge: simultaneously not reducing private car traffic AND declining all traffic which apparently spends money in the City Centre.
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But also, like actual facts that we've got so far (e.g. Telraams) do show a decline.
I'm reminded of when mobile phone data showed visitors to oxford city centre increasing, and some councillors were like "yeah but that's just data, instead we should focus on this one business owner who says not"
I'm reminded of when mobile phone data showed visitors to oxford city centre increasing, and some councillors were like "yeah but that's just data, instead we should focus on this one business owner who says not"
November 13, 2025 at 10:47 AM
But also, like actual facts that we've got so far (e.g. Telraams) do show a decline.
I'm reminded of when mobile phone data showed visitors to oxford city centre increasing, and some councillors were like "yeah but that's just data, instead we should focus on this one business owner who says not"
I'm reminded of when mobile phone data showed visitors to oxford city centre increasing, and some councillors were like "yeah but that's just data, instead we should focus on this one business owner who says not"
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🍃🌹🌿 #FastTrack Amendment Bill #Submission Done!!
Thanks for the guidance & making it easy to make a submission -I just added my thoughts & put it in my own words, as I agreed with your points. Closes tomorrow at 2pm #nzpol
www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...
Thanks for the guidance & making it easy to make a submission -I just added my thoughts & put it in my own words, as I agreed with your points. Closes tomorrow at 2pm #nzpol
www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...
Fast-Track Amendment Bill submission guide - Greenpeace Aotearoa
In a vicious escalation of the Government’s war on nature, the Government is proposing changes to the Fast Track Act that would make it even more dangerous and undemocratic.
www.greenpeace.org
November 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
🍃🌹🌿 #FastTrack Amendment Bill #Submission Done!!
Thanks for the guidance & making it easy to make a submission -I just added my thoughts & put it in my own words, as I agreed with your points. Closes tomorrow at 2pm #nzpol
www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...
Thanks for the guidance & making it easy to make a submission -I just added my thoughts & put it in my own words, as I agreed with your points. Closes tomorrow at 2pm #nzpol
www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...
Issuing bikes to people in need provides a rate of return of almost 12:1.
Bikes are so efficient and effective that the numbers can seen absurd. But that's bikes for you.
Bikes are so efficient and effective that the numbers can seen absurd. But that's bikes for you.
More than 12,000 bikes have been distributed since 2015 and are estimated to have delivered an average return of £11.80 for every £1 invested road.cc/content/news...
Free bike schemes in deprived communities improve people's health, wellbeing and social mobility, report shows
The trial took place in three areas across the UK and found the scheme also resulted in healthcare savings in relation to preventable deaths and disease
road.cc
November 16, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Issuing bikes to people in need provides a rate of return of almost 12:1.
Bikes are so efficient and effective that the numbers can seen absurd. But that's bikes for you.
Bikes are so efficient and effective that the numbers can seen absurd. But that's bikes for you.
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Wow! Free bikes trial schemes in 3 areas showed a 12x returning investment.
Reduced expected cases of disease by 16% and deaths by 6%.
What a win. We should be rolling these schemes to all deprived neighbourhoods.
road.cc/content/news...
Reduced expected cases of disease by 16% and deaths by 6%.
What a win. We should be rolling these schemes to all deprived neighbourhoods.
road.cc/content/news...
Free bike schemes in deprived communities improve people's health, wellbeing and social mobility, report shows
The trial took place in three areas across the UK and found the scheme also resulted in healthcare savings in relation to preventable deaths and disease
road.cc
November 15, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Wow! Free bikes trial schemes in 3 areas showed a 12x returning investment.
Reduced expected cases of disease by 16% and deaths by 6%.
What a win. We should be rolling these schemes to all deprived neighbourhoods.
road.cc/content/news...
Reduced expected cases of disease by 16% and deaths by 6%.
What a win. We should be rolling these schemes to all deprived neighbourhoods.
road.cc/content/news...
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If only the off road bike lane that has been proposed for 30 years had been built to the Car centric school we moved AWAY from a railway station.
November 15, 2025 at 11:49 AM
If only the off road bike lane that has been proposed for 30 years had been built to the Car centric school we moved AWAY from a railway station.
I remember going to see 'The Brady Bunch Movie' in 1995 or whenever it was released in the UK.
Being British & born in the 1980s, I had absolutely no idea that this was the successor to a long-running 1970s American TV programme.
I enjoyed it at face value. My friend's mum thought it was dreadful😂
Being British & born in the 1980s, I had absolutely no idea that this was the successor to a long-running 1970s American TV programme.
I enjoyed it at face value. My friend's mum thought it was dreadful😂
November 15, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I remember going to see 'The Brady Bunch Movie' in 1995 or whenever it was released in the UK.
Being British & born in the 1980s, I had absolutely no idea that this was the successor to a long-running 1970s American TV programme.
I enjoyed it at face value. My friend's mum thought it was dreadful😂
Being British & born in the 1980s, I had absolutely no idea that this was the successor to a long-running 1970s American TV programme.
I enjoyed it at face value. My friend's mum thought it was dreadful😂
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![4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiby6can6k76yzfmv2czxs4pu2l7zie7bqbrpswi7h3ifmiadkuqvu@jpeg)
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Most dismaying is the lack of imagination. How sad to equate freedom for sitting alone in a private, movable metal cell—a.k.a. car—and then spend most time in a long row of these cells—a.k.a. traffic jam? And how many people r even truly noticing the few genuine freedoms that car can actually offer?
Never forget, car dependency is the opposite of freedom.
What’s more “free” than cars, you ask?
Choices.
What’s more “free” than cars, you ask?
Choices.
November 15, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Most dismaying is the lack of imagination. How sad to equate freedom for sitting alone in a private, movable metal cell—a.k.a. car—and then spend most time in a long row of these cells—a.k.a. traffic jam? And how many people r even truly noticing the few genuine freedoms that car can actually offer?
On reflection, my bicycle bell needs to be repaired.
November 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
On reflection, my bicycle bell needs to be repaired.
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From Undermining Democracy to Destabilising the Climate: A brief history of the Neo-liberal Atlas Network: #AtlasNetwork #nzpol www.alliancemagazine.org/analysis/und...
November 14, 2025 at 8:48 AM
From Undermining Democracy to Destabilising the Climate: A brief history of the Neo-liberal Atlas Network: #AtlasNetwork #nzpol www.alliancemagazine.org/analysis/und...
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Exactly. #EVs are WAY safer than petrol, diesel or hybrid vehicles!
#AtlasNetwork / #BigOil disinformation is rife #nzpol www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/tusker-...
Better to worry about NZ’s air pollution, responsible for 1 in 10 deaths! newsroom.co.nz/2023/10/06/t...
#AtlasNetwork / #BigOil disinformation is rife #nzpol www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/tusker-...
Better to worry about NZ’s air pollution, responsible for 1 in 10 deaths! newsroom.co.nz/2023/10/06/t...
November 14, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Exactly. #EVs are WAY safer than petrol, diesel or hybrid vehicles!
#AtlasNetwork / #BigOil disinformation is rife #nzpol www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/tusker-...
Better to worry about NZ’s air pollution, responsible for 1 in 10 deaths! newsroom.co.nz/2023/10/06/t...
#AtlasNetwork / #BigOil disinformation is rife #nzpol www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/tusker-...
Better to worry about NZ’s air pollution, responsible for 1 in 10 deaths! newsroom.co.nz/2023/10/06/t...
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Anyway, the best way to improve our living standards and not (at least immediately) raise taxes is to signal that we want to rejoin the EU.
Overnight we will pay a lot less interest on our £2.8 trillion debt…
Overnight we will pay a lot less interest on our £2.8 trillion debt…
November 14, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Anyway, the best way to improve our living standards and not (at least immediately) raise taxes is to signal that we want to rejoin the EU.
Overnight we will pay a lot less interest on our £2.8 trillion debt…
Overnight we will pay a lot less interest on our £2.8 trillion debt…
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Terrible reporting here. The fire that killed the bus driver started in the cars engine & bus batteries were undamaged. Whangarei CCTV footage shows the ute’s exhaust starting the fire. Both facts the journo should know.
November 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Terrible reporting here. The fire that killed the bus driver started in the cars engine & bus batteries were undamaged. Whangarei CCTV footage shows the ute’s exhaust starting the fire. Both facts the journo should know.
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Driving in traffic is a dull and unpleasant chore and the only way Americans can escape having to do it all the time is by moving to one of three very expensive cities. This is bad and we should fix it.
appropos of going outside daily, I have to note that drivers have just absolutely and completely lost their minds. I'm amazed that it has, somehow, gotten continually worse
why do drivers do this to themselves. just in full psychopathic rage all the time, everywhere
why do drivers do this to themselves. just in full psychopathic rage all the time, everywhere
November 13, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Driving in traffic is a dull and unpleasant chore and the only way Americans can escape having to do it all the time is by moving to one of three very expensive cities. This is bad and we should fix it.
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Mind Blowingly Good Cycle Lanes planned
That’s a bold statement. I like it
www.timeout.com/london/news/...
That’s a bold statement. I like it
www.timeout.com/london/news/...
Inside ‘mind-blowingly good’ plans for new cycle lanes in central London
The West End’s traffic-congested streets could get a radical redesign.
www.timeout.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Mind Blowingly Good Cycle Lanes planned
That’s a bold statement. I like it
www.timeout.com/london/news/...
That’s a bold statement. I like it
www.timeout.com/london/news/...
This should be something that people just do. But it's good to have it explicitly listed in the conditions of carriage.
Aeroplane wi-fi plus people scrolling TikTok with the sound on= 😩😫😡🤬
Aeroplane wi-fi plus people scrolling TikTok with the sound on= 😩😫😡🤬
Flight attendant just announced that Delta has a “quiet cabin policy” that requires you to use your device either on mute or with headphones. This is the way. We are winning.
November 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
This should be something that people just do. But it's good to have it explicitly listed in the conditions of carriage.
Aeroplane wi-fi plus people scrolling TikTok with the sound on= 😩😫😡🤬
Aeroplane wi-fi plus people scrolling TikTok with the sound on= 😩😫😡🤬
Robin Williams; a nice guy on a bicycle 🚲 😊
Avid bicyclist, a friend used to run into him riding
Friend knew him well enough to say “he was exactly who you thought he was, but with a smaller ego and a bigger heart”
Friend knew him well enough to say “he was exactly who you thought he was, but with a smaller ego and a bigger heart”
November 12, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Robin Williams; a nice guy on a bicycle 🚲 😊
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Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
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Let's stop pretending that the billionaire media, endlessly attacking the BBC, has the slightest interest in balance, impartiality and accuracy. They won't be happy until the BBC is more rightwing than Vlad the Impaler. And then it still won't be enough.
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Let's stop pretending that the billionaire media, endlessly attacking the BBC, has the slightest interest in balance, impartiality and accuracy. They won't be happy until the BBC is more rightwing than Vlad the Impaler. And then it still won't be enough.
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Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...